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I just purchased my second switch recently and the only regret is the Lan port! It would have been nice to be there if I wanted to stream without having to buy an adapter to waste a port on.

Speaking as an US Citizen:

Why is it you think the government should be involved in this when they are demonstrably incompetents in keeping our basic Credit Cards and Checking Accounts safe from scammers and fraudulent attacks? Especially not keeping our elderly population safe.

They can't even keep public emails safe from a certain Secretary of State.

They can't keep a single man in a Prison safe from 'suiciding' while waiting for the court case of the century.

They can't even keep the phone companies accountable to the Do Not Call list for spam calls.

They cannot keep telco and cable companies from price gauging consumers for internet while at the same time enforcing lock downs that keep people at home- with children- that require internet access and lots of bandwidth. Many states holding the state residents hostage from any sort of options of providers.

If the crypto rush is the new gold rush and it is a burgeoning market, why should - or how could, the government save people from their personal decisions. Crypto itself is not fraud. We have laws against fraud if one specific instance is found to be fraudulent. Why should we make new laws to save people from their bad decisions? Honestly, those bad decisions started with the elected officials that aren't held accountable to the public as it is. So we're going to let incompetents govern incompetently for what exists and ask them to govern competently for NEW things? How peculiar.

> Now imagine if an artist makes a digital painting. Is that work of art any less meaningful or valuable? Of course not. But there's been no way to define an "original" in the digital art form, and so there's been no way to assign collectability to digital works of art. NFTs seem to provide a way for an artist and fans to collectively agree that some digital object is the original, and to treat it as such.

Sometimes ownership of a thing doesn't matter if there is a psychological barrier to the product itself and its relationship to the owner.

If we are talking about the ownership of an item in the traditional sense a painting then NFT's need to fall into two categories:

Vanity: Private ownership for personal enjoyment. Here I find NFT's silly. People will duplicate the work if they have access to a digital file and run wild with it for the sake of personal enjoyment. This is where I think most NFT hate comes from and its not without merit.

Investment: NFTs could indeed be used for issuing ownership, or even fractional ownership, where a work is displayed at its maximum potential (resolution/medium) and access to the display is owned and profit is split among owners. This is really the remarkable aspect of NFTs and I am not even sure you have to limit digital goods either.

If we are talking about ownership of an item in the commissioned sense then NFT's make copyright and trademark infringement easier to litigate ownership if the work is used by someone who isn't an owner.

It is hasty to hate NFTs. But it is ok to question their relevance in certain regards.

They will cover your liability to others but there is a good chance they won't cover your losses other than medical unless mandated by the State's Department of Insurance regs. I am only talking about the US based P&C here.

I mean, I don't like Huffington post but dang...

Why do you think these are the only tools at a governing body's disposal? It seems myopic to me that you think we have to agree to a unified tax to be the only sane choice. You've given no other choice. Global minimum tax won't work the way you think unless there is a concurrent currency reset... oh wait....

> I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.

That is more on you being a good steward of your money than anything else. Our development team eats out at restaurants nearly every day when we were at the office. Code together, dine together. Bad boys for life.

Python 4.0 won't exist. The Python crew will just ape GNOME and jump to Python 40 after we get Python 3.9.39. Then HN watches the Data Science projects across the world unite in harmony for a heralded new version, distinct from its originals, with no breaking changes. Then HN will watch again when Python 41 comes out 12 months later via a new modern release cadence and we get a 2 to 3 breakage that sends Data Scientists and others around the world into righteous indignations and they blog about it.

"The Breitbart Doctrine is the idea that "politics is downstream from culture" and that to change politics one must first change culture.} [cited from Wikipedia]

Andrew was a man ahead of his time.

I am curious. What makes you think requirement is non-optional?

In today's topography, these dependencies drive the use case more times than not. Something like 'As a clerical manager I want IT to take an old nightly file (proprietary fmt) and transform it to CSV and put it onto our S3 drive so that we can get the data into our EDW staging area.'

If Perl can only get the transformation piece where another language gets you to the last part then there is less reason to use Perl at all. That was Perl's bread and butter. It was the king of data transformation. It was even used (is used) to prototype data conversion from COBOL to xml. I've even seen it parsing COBOL code for keyword highlighting and hosting a website to view the results.

I could easily write that in SCALA today in a one stop shop, arguably faster.

Perl isn't dead but its not exactly alive. And let's face it, it isn't really being taught in schools anymore. It and PHP were when I was in college. Can any language fall to this fate? Sure, but if you stick with Java/Scala/Kotlin, Javascript/Typescript/Node and .Net/C#/F# you are pretty safe for a decade or two. Perl is just the weeds in the garden at this point.

Good luck when you get into an accident with your teardrop trailer, rv camper or even motorcycle trailer and you find out your insurance company won't pay it because you were over your tow capacity (if you even had any) with or without e-breaks.

Is it nonsensical? Does it need a lot of assumptions?

TLDR - The Earth is a breadboard and humans decided to arrange themselves in such a way that they created an immense circuit that could be made into a schematic to be replicated. It data packs every choice each performer makes(singer, composer, carpenter, painter, marketer, observer) in their lives over a duration until observation. Is it safe to consider this is an analog what they meant?

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A great operatic area is the product of many threads of choices from composers (tone arranger), singers (tone generators), carpenters (set creators), painters (set decorators), etc. that over their lives chose to develop talents (some internal arousal). Then you have the observers who view the operation. For replication, depending on the era that the opera was created and first rendered the replication and want to re-view it or expand viewership the adding more observers would be word to mouth. In a modern era that moment of orchestration could be captured on video and marketed online. This opens even MORE human interaction and duration because the humans over time moved technology to the point where the quality of sampling rate has moved from poor audio to obscenely realistic video. Then there are people who may have heard it at a lower sample rate and prefer it vs new sampling rates which are incidental data inputs in and of themselves. And as people die new generations pick up positions in the orchestration the decisions they chose, the biological improvements for tone generations one person may have, or a more expressive actor may impact the observers more than a previous one. That last aspect, is very much like iteration over PCB designs where you may swap out an old technology for a new one that does the job more efficiently.

Or maybe I am way off and my exercise at Duck Typing the humanities to circuit design is whimsical and lacking…

edit: for some clarity around word to mouth and modern marketing

I think you may be projecting here. There are millionaires living in Bessemer. Bessemer is right next to down town Birmingham, Hoover, Homewood, Fultondale, Gardendale, Chelsea and a not too long drive from Tuscaloosa. There is so much money here for most industries. The cost of living in the GBA isn’t much at all especially north on I65. Also, while it is true Bessemer is more or less impoverished in the city it has some really beautiful outskirts. People who live there absolutely do not have to work there.

Why are people in comments treating Bessemer as small town America. It is a part of the greater Birmingham area and Job opportunities abound. It’s 10 or 15 minutes from Healthcare/Banking center clad Birmingham. If you can stomach the crime between Bessemer and parts of Hueytown, you can make an absolute boat load of money. I live like 15 minutes from Bessemer myself and have had to go there or through there many times.